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I'm a conservative republican, and this pisses me off.
A kid is expelled because her mom is a lesbian? This school claims it is a Christian school, yet they punish a child because her parents don't share the values of the school.
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I'm kind of confused about the "Shay was reprimanded for talking to the crowd during a football game" thing as well.
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The only thing that surprises me about this is that she was allowed in the school in the first place. Both of the private Christian schools my son has attended made it very clear that they expected families to conform to a generally conservative Christian philosophy. There is leeway there (single parents, step-families), but I doubt it goes so far as to accept openly homomsexual partners as the primary parents of one of their students.
Bear in mind that Christian schools usually have to operate in the black. So they have the difficult job of balancing a wide variety of beliefs within the Christian spectrum. Most I've seen tend to weigh on the more conservative side to satisfy the widest number of families. For example, you probably wouldn't find Harry Potter on the library shelves, but you would probably find at least one student who had a personal copy in his desk.
While single parents and step families are fairly well accepted within most churches, homosexual partners as the primary parents of a family definitely aren't. And most of these schools are not operating as outreach ministries. They are open to support Christian families in educating their children.
In any case, most private Christian schools couldn't withstand the firestorm that would ensue if they decided to take a stand on it. They might as well just close.
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My question is, how many students have they expelled who's parents co-habitate in heterosexual relationships without being married. Do they even know how many they may have? After all the article states that co-habitation between heterosexuals is frowned on and a reason for expulsion too. As unfair as it seems, if they are applying the same rules to heterosexual parents at least they are being equally unfair.
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I imagine they only expel when it becomes an issue. These schools usually operate on a shoestring and don't capriciously expel anyone. But I don't know this particular school...I am just guessing on my experience as a mother with a child in a Christian school. I can't imagine it being an issue at the school my son attends unless the child made it an issue by bringing it up. I guess my contention on this is that they almost had to have enrolled her under false pretenses. I know that we wouldn't have been admitted to either of the schools my son attended if I'd shown up to the admission interview with a lesbian partner as his other mother.
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All moral and ideological issues aside, wouldn't it help their overall cause to be able to influence this child?
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I have no problem with it because the school had a policy in place already. They didn't kick her out for no reason and they didn't invent a policy just to persecute her - they already had a policy that parents couldn't co-habitate without marriage or couldn't be in a homosexual relationship. What they did was consistent with their policies and therefore I'm fine with it. The parents have no grounds to gripe - I'm sure they were given copies of the policies so they had to know - what did they expect the school to do when it found out?
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This is when you get into that sticky area of "we would be married but the stated doesn't allow it." But private schools do have a right to set their own admission policies. Are they being punished for what they did or for lying about it? How hard is it to get the punishee to understand that sometimes?
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quote:This is when you get into that sticky area of "we would be married but the stated doesn't allow it."
I don't know about this school but most of the Christian schools around here wouldn't care if the state allowed it or not, they still would have problems with homosexual parents even if they were legally married. The language of the policy said "immoral or inconsistent with a positive Christian life style, such as cohabitating without marriage or in a homosexual relationship." It doesn't specify what type of homosexual relationship so I suspect the ruling would apply even if the parents were in a married homosexual relationship.
Edit: I thought about this, for a minute, and realized that when I was thinking of homeschool associations to join, there was one that was strictly for atheists and agnostics and materialists. It was started because the majority of homeschool cover schools in Alabama were religious. Well, IIRC, you had to pledge that if you were part of the cover school you would not try to push a religious viewpoint on other members because they came there, most likely, to get away from that. So, say I had joined and begun touting a conservative Christian curriculum. They could have kicked me out, and they would be right to do so.
This isn't really about homosexual rights or discrimination, it's about does a private school have the right to set its own admission standards and force the people that go there to abide by them. I think the answer is absolutely yes, and that protects both religious and non-religious private schools.
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